Harry Garside had no answer to Cuban Andy Cruz but will still walk away from Tokyo with Australia’s first Olympic boxing medal in 33 years.
World No.1 Cruz scored a unanimous points win in the lightweight semi-final to move through to the gold medal bout against American Keyshawn Davis.
Garside will join fellow beaten semi-finalist – Armenian Hovhannes Bachkov – in taking bronze, becoming just the fifth Australian to win an Olympic boxing medal and first since Grahame ‘Spike’ Cheney claimed silver in Seoul in 1988.
Garside had no answer to Cruz’s speed, the two-time world champion equally effective on the front foot or counter-punching as he landed a number of telling blows on the Australian’s chin to win every round.
AAP
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